Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

Amid the futuristic glitz and glamour, the company announced plans to roll out a new set of short-term series of online courses, called Nanodegrees, all in part of the company’s growing push towards jobs-training. But it’s not the first time the company has promoted this strategy. Udacity focuses on industry,” Thrun said.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Based on each student’s actions, when a student gets stuck, the system automatically suggests strategies on how to get out of it and proceed to mastery. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) Now in its seventh year, MOOCs crossed the 100 million learner mark, recently hitting 101 million.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2021

Udemy has become one of the best-funded companies in edtech, having raised another $80 million earlier this year, bringing its total raised to nearly $300 million. So, what are its plans, and how does it see the market for online courses changing after the pandemic? First, some background.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2023

She also teaches Learning How to Learn , one of the most popular Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Olav Schewe, consultant based in Oslo, Norway, who has worked with universities and companies to advise them on how to use insights from neuroscience to make better learning programs and tools.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

Rather, he objects to what he sees as attempts to shut faculty members out of discussions of how to bring change to teaching and academic services. “If Eshleman recommends a book by Steven Johnson called “ Where Good Ideas Come From ” for examples of how companies have succeeded in generating great new ideas.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

People are using it in the hundreds, not the tens of thousands,” says Julian Alssid, chief marketplace engagement officer at SocialTech.ai, the company that runs the Unmudl platform. Course profiles feature statistics about typical industry salaries and list the companies that have hired completers. Now, it just needs students.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

Teachers, of course, know how to shift this physical setting — move the chairs around, for example. The company was founded in 1998 by UC Berkeley doctoral students who were concerned about cheating in the science classes they taught. The company works both ends of the plagiarism market.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Now that we’ve assembled international crowds of motivated, smart people online in MOOCs, it’s time to think about harnessing their collective intelligence to tackle these urgent cross-boundary issues. We invite up to 1,000 students who have previously completed two or more of our free MOOCs to apply to participate in these challenges.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

They’re communities of people who share a pot of cryptocurrency and who decide by voting how to spend that money—kind of like a co-op. The metaverse should probably reference them,” says Patel, who previously held positions at workforce-training companies Thinkful, On Deck and Maven. That includes higher education.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Even MOOCs have a professor, even if it might be one for 100,000 people. How do you take the professor out? With them learning by doing, it's just like when we learned how to walk or talk, they're learning from each other, they're observing, and they're actually doing things hands-on. How did you learn?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The American Historical Association offers over one thousand Civil War newspaper editorials , for example. We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. Let’s take maps, for example. government as well.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Among the choices educators make are what instructional technique to use, when and how to give feedback, and when and how to test student knowledge. What’s more, for each of these choices, there are additional decisions about which media to use (video, audio, hands-on), whether to give concrete examples, and more.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I'm not an advocate for ed-tech; I'm not here to sell you on a new flashcard app or show you how to use the learning management system more effectively. Most, I'd wager, are facing severe funding shortages — the loss of tuition, dorm-room, and sportsball dollars, for example — as well as new expenses like PPE and COVID testing.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

As online learning companies compete for the attention and wallets of learners, players like MasterClass , Linked Learning , Cognotion and Harvard are investing in producing videos that are so beautiful they could be National Geographic documentaries or sitcom pilots. Demonstrate” videos illustrate how to do something in a step-by-step way.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Companies have been selling their products – textbooks, workbooks, maps, films, and so on – to schools for well over a century. Many companies – and certainly these two in particular – also have a long history of data collection and data analysis. MOOCs were going to change everything.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

That, in theory, will allow each campus to focus its energies on what it can do best and turn to outside companies and nonprofits for the rest. And I remember one of the MOOC founders who said five years later, well MOOCs have failed as an educational experiment. And I go out from there.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

In a panel discussion moderated by Mark Phillips (CEO at HireEducation), Graham Forman (Founder of Ednovate) and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge (Portfolio Services Director at Kapor Capital) will talk about the challenges of obtaining funding, and how to overcome those obstacles to get your business started. Higher Ed 12:30 p.m. EdSurge 4:00 p.m.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Learn how to learn. Here’s how to make this easy, from an Ask a Tech Teacher contributor: In the past, a university degree provided a majority of graduates with the skills they needed to succeed in their chosen careers. Yet many students do not have a solid understanding of how to effectively go about the process of upskilling.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

For example, currently two-thirds of community colleges have launched mobile apps, but CIOs largely don’t see the deployment as effective. Another example: phones are much more important than tablets for less affluent students, but CIOs see them as equally significant. The question Casey asks is, how to get more value out of the LMS?

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” ” There’s more on legal battles involving student loan companies in the business of financial aid section below. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Yet, at the same time, many college leaders are finding that institutions can learn from tech-savvy companies, especially when it comes to kind of creating a culture of innovation and trying new things. So how can colleges experiment without straying from their mission? How do you have that dialogue?

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APRIL 1, 2019

In response, schools and companies alike have responded with innovative ideas, but almost all focus on applying technology—like predictive analytics, blended learning, and MOOC-enabled degrees—to student support and instructional services. Other companies then pay Vendition to find and train qualified workers.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom. This post is actually intended to supplement the “Cycle of Learning Innovation” model that will be publishing tomorrow (7.7.2015), which means this is less about analysis and context and more about the examples. 30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom . by Terry Heick.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

” The idea, though, that the kids had separated from technology was ridiculous as Justin shows a YouTube video on how to make a rainbow loom starbust bracelet that has been viewed over 30 million times! As a researcher, Justin has been carrying this concept into his work with MOOCs.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Marshall Exploring Gender Neutral/Inclusive Bathrooms in Libraries: A Global Perspective - Raymond Pun, Kenya Flash Flipped Learning in L2: How to Encourage Cross-Cultural Critical Thinking to Teach Global Problem-Solving Skills - Birgit A. Jack Haskell How to Globally Mobilize High School Students to Actualize the United Nations SDGs.

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Wired Campus

MARCH 13, 2015

Speaking at a separate session, he cited the increasing flows of data to which colleges have access, including from learning-management systems, student-success systems, and MOOCs. “My Company Watch IT Social Networking Teaching' At the same time, he warned of an overreliance on predictive analytics in guiding students.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

In the TV series Shark Tank, entrepreneurs with budding companies pitch their ideas to a panel of investors who ask probing questions and then decide whether to back the proposals. Freund: When I sold my previous company, I had some time at my hands for the first time really in my life. Each spoke from a different perspective — Ms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2017

I’d cite a few examples of this approach but, as you can imagine, startups who take this approach rarely get off the ground and those who do don’t last long. Do you know what company is “Facebook for country X?” This means that customer acquisition is challenging and your company’s revenue model has to be rich enough to support it.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Meanwhile, hiring managers were asking for actual skillsets so the kids could come in and hit the ground running, particularly as companies dropped a lot of their in-house training programs in those years right after the recession. For example, people working in human resources are no longer purely steeped in human-resource disciplines.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The companies who succeed began because they want to make the world a better place. Guy then shows a number of companies that succeeded. These companies all changed the world and made meaning for the world. As an example, Nike stands for authentic athletic performance and FedEx for peace of mind.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

.” São Paulo has approved a bill that would allow companies to manufacture school uniforms and sell branding and sponsorship opportunities on the clothing. ” The city uses algorithms, for example, to place students in public schools. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). million total.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” But of course, that’s not quite true: my first introduction to Papert's work was actually a decade earlier, when I sat at an Apple II and taught a Turtle how to move about the screen. Some cities and states are considering making computer science compulsory – in Chicago , Virginia , Queensland , for example.

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

” And as I’ve stewed about how to offer you some provocations in return – that is the job, I believe, of the keynote speaker: not to comfort but to provoke – I’ve used this phrase as the starting point for my own thinking. What are MOOCs, for example? Doing so will even raise your credit score.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Via The Conversation : “What we can learn from closure of charter school that DeVos praised as ‘shining example’ ” The school in question: the Excel Academy Public Charter School in DC which was closed for poor performance. Yes, “that pays superintendents to attend meetings with educational tech companies.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

She seemed to fail to grasp some of the basics of education policy – the difference between “ proficiency ” and “ growth ,” for example, and the federal rules surrounding disability rights and education. Here’s how a convention could do it.” Via CNN : “ Rewrite the Constitution ?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Without revenue the company will go away. And “free” doesn’t last.

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